Epistle XXXII. To Quintilian.
by
the Same. [Mr. Henley.]
[_]
He makes him a Present for his Daughter.
THO', you, for your own particular, are very Modest and Frugal, and have Educated your Daughter in a manner becoming yourself,
and the Niece of Tutilius: Yet since she is to marry a Gentleman of Quality,
Nonius Celer, who is oblig'd by his Rank to make a Figure in Life;
She ought to be furnish'd with Dress, Equipage, and Attendants, agreeable to the Character of her Husband;
Our Dignity is not encreas'd by these Advantages, but it is set off by them.
Besides, I know you to be, tho' very happy in Mind, yet not over-stock'd with the Goods of Fortune;
therefore I claim a part of your Charge, and as another Father to our young Lady,
I present her with 50000 Sesterces; more should readily
be at her Service; if I was not sensible, that only the moderate Nature of the Offer,
could prevail upon your Modesty to accept of it.
Farewell.